Fixes

11/22/2011

Although this is a known issue that has been around for ages, I still find people who are experiencing this. Therefore, I'm posting the solution here.

This is actually an odd issue caused by creating associative hatch patterns that use the linework in external references as part of the boundary definition. To get rid of this annoying issue, you must do the following:

07/15/2011

The purpose of this post is to document two features of leaders in Civil 3D labels that are pretty nifty. These features have been present in a few releases so if you are still working on 2010, these are available.

Change Leader Attachment Side

We used to create duplicate label style for leadering to the left and leadering to the right for labels that had to remain "as composed" in dragged state. When dragged state is set to "as composed", it retains line, block, tick components and all settings configured on the Layout tab. The only drawback is that the leader won't flip sides depending on the direction it is dragged.

When you click on the label, there are many grips exposed. If you grab the diamond grip, you can change to location of the attachment point of the label.

When you label a structure in profile and pull it into dragged state, the origin point on the label will not stay put; it will glide around the perimeter of the profiled structure for some logical reason that only a developer can explain.

To make it stop, before you drag the label, right-click on it and click on Toggle Label Pin. This will pin down the origin point on the leader (although the location of the cartoon thumb tack is misleading). Then drag the text to the desired location.